6/10 Jolie news update

Jolie/Rochel

Jolie/Rochel

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Hi, sorry I'm not following the title protocol, but you can see Jolie's numbers on the SS, which I'm updating as we go. OK so this morning we had to go to the emergency because she had a nosebleed!! No idea what brought that on. She was sneezing and there was blood splattering on the wall and all over my comforter! Vet is not sure if it was a systemic vs a local source. May have been a bad tooth exacerbating some inflammation or something - they gave her an antibiotic injection just in case. I hope she just sniffed up a little something in her cute button nose and it's out now!! Anyway the labs came out pretty good. Liver values are improving a bit, weight has gone up a bit, no sign of infection. She's fine tonight!! Maybe she and a little bug had a fistfight, I don't know!!!

My regular vet was aware. He recommended taking a break from the insulin - so did not give today. These .25 and .1 doses, he feels, are unreliable. He wants to see how things go with Jolie not on insulin in the context of the new LC diet + the fact that she was recently weaned from steroids. Her numbers look pretty good today. I really hope it was the steroids and that she will go into remission. I'll know more by tomororow.

Anyway, I am swamped with getting ready for trip and getting both Jolie and her bro Jacques ready to head off to the vet tech hotel tomorrow! Can't keep up with the posts for now, but i so thank you for your help and will hopefully not be back ever!! :) (I mean, no offense, but wouldn't it be great??:) You people are AWESOME!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
 
Julie is not ready to stop insulin and I do not agree with your vet.
****If you are sending Jolie to a pet sitter I would definitely continue with the insulin. Otherwise you are risking her getting ketones which can lead to the more dangerous DKA. Please make sure the techs check daily for ketones in the urine. And please consider restarting the insulin. Cats need to be in green BG continually before stopping insulin.
She needs to be on a small dose twice a day, not once a day. The 0.1 unit and 0.25 unit doses are not an unreliable doses as the vet says.
Are you still using the freestyle libre or a hand held meter?
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I agree with @Bron and Sheba (GA) 100% about everything she said
Rochel said in one of her previous posts that the vet tech who Jolie will be staying with is and I quote what she said
This tech is a senior-level tech at a major practice in NYC, and she is going to be boarding Jolie at her apt while we are gone for 10 days with close all day monitoring, BG checks, insulin, etc. It will probably be for the best for Jolie to get into an insulin routine,

So I guess that has changed since she will be following her vets advice to stop insulin for awhile. We can only give her advice as we are only looking out for her kitty.
I just hope Jolie will be ok. The yellow numbers for today don't look pretty good to me as Rochel stated above. I'm just concerned about Jolie
Her first dose of 0.10 was given on 6-9 @PMPS and that's all and NS this morning 6-10 per her vet
 
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Read and very much appreciated your advice, all. What about the renal threshold? I understand she is mostly probably under it right now - or close. She has gained almost half a pound in the last couple weeks and urination frequency is normal. Appetite not ravenous anymore. She also has fully transitioned to LC diet and the steroids are probably out of her system by now.

I’m still using the Libre2 and will discuss all this with the tech today. I do agree that it would be an optimal time for Jolie to continue getting insulin because she will be monitored and can be given the injections fairly easily.

Tested urine for ketones this morning - - was negative - and will def continue to do so.
 
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